The Law of Karma

Resolution of personal karma

When man consciously identifies himself with his divine self, he has no longer got a free will of his own. He is then exclusively ruled by the will of God. At that point we can pronounce the same words as Christ in Gethsemane: "My Father, if it is possible, take this cup of suffering from me! Yet not what I want, but what you want" (Math. 26, 39).

When our motives only concentrate on serving God and our fellow men, all individual karma will stop and we shall only return to earth to be a light on the path for our brothers and sisters who have not yet found their way back to their Father's home.

Christianity and karma

Karma is one of the issues where Eastern and Western religions differ greatly. It all amounts to the question whether there is really a universal principle ensuring that we will inescapably experience the effects of our actions, or in other words that we reap as we harvest. The church has always emphasised forgiveness of sins and Christ's atonement for our sins through his death on the cross. As salvation is dispensed through faith in Christ and not through personal evolution , there is no need for karma.

It is a big question, the extent to which the bible bears evidence to the doctrine of atonement. Christ never mentions it. The doctrine is based on interpretations of the words of Christ. Against these interpretations there are many passages in the bible that point in the direction of karma.
These passages have been assembled in the following to show that on this point there is also agreement between the teachings of the East and West. Karma emerges directly in those passages expressing the principle of consequence, i.e. that any action, good or bad, evokes a corresponding response. Karma emerges indirectly where Christ speaks of diseases as a result of sins.